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Publications

Association between ambient temperature and heat waves with mortality in South Asia: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Author(s): Asya Dimitrova; Vijendra Ingole; Xavier Basagaña; Otavio Ranzani; Carles Milà; Joan Ballester; Cathryn Tonne
Published in: Environment International, Issue 146, 2021, Page(s) 106170, ISSN 1873-6750
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.106170

Temperature Exposure and Psychiatric Symptoms in Adolescents From 2 European Birth Cohorts

Author(s): Esmée Essers, Michelle Kusters, Laura Granés, Joan Ballester, Sami Petricola, Nerea Lertxundi, Ane Arregi, Ferran Ballester, Martine Vrijheid, Hanan El Marroun, Carmen Iñiguez, Henning Tiemeier, Mònica Guxens
Published in: JAMA Network Open, Issue 8, 2025, Page(s) e2456898, ISSN 2574-3805
Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.56898

Bridging the gender, climate, and health gap: the road to COP29

Author(s): Kim Robin van Daalen, Laura Jung, Sara Dada, Razan Othman, Alanna Barrios-Ruiz, Grace Zurielle Malolos, Kai-Ti Wu, Ana Garza-Salas, Salma El-Gamal, Tarek Ezzine, Parnian Khorsand, Arthur Wyns, Blanca Paniello-Castillo, Sophie Gepp, Maisoon Chowdhury, Ander Santamarta Zamorano, Jess Beagley, Clare Oliver-Williams, Ramit Debnath, Ronita Bardhan, Nicole de Paula, Alexandra Phelan, Rachel Lowe
Published in: The Lancet Planetary Health, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) e1088-e1105, ISSN 2542-5196
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(24)00270-5

Reduction in air pollution and attributable mortality due to COVID-19 lockdown

Author(s): Hicham Achebak, Hervé Petetin, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Dene Bowdalo, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Joan Ballester
Published in: The Lancet Planetary Health, Issue 4(7), 2020, Page(s) e268, ISSN 2542-5196
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(20)30148-0

Ambient temperature and risk of cardiovascular and respiratory adverse health outcomes: a nationwide cross-sectional study from Spain

Author(s): Hicham Achebak, Grégoire Rey, Simon J Lloyd, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Raúl Fernando Méndez-Turrubiates, Joan Ballester
Published in: European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Issue 31, 2024, Page(s) 1080-1089, ISSN 2047-4873
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwae021

The Direct and Indirect Influences of Interrelated Regional-Level Sociodemographic Factors on Heat-Attributable Mortality in Europe: Insights for Adaptation Strategies

Author(s): Simon J. Lloyd; Marcos Quijal-Zamorano; Hicham Achebak; Shakoor Hajat; Raya Muttarak; Erich Striessnig; Joan Ballester
Published in: Environmental Health Perspectives, Issue 131(8), 2023, Page(s) 087013-1 to 087013-13, ISSN 1552-9924
Publisher: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
DOI: 10.1289/ehp11766

Association between temperature and occupational injuries in Spain: The role of contextual factors in workers’ adaptation

Author(s): Constanza Vielma, Hicham Achebak, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Simon J Lloyd, Guillaume Chevance, Joan Ballester
Published in: Environment International, Issue 192, 2024, Page(s) 109006, ISSN 0160-4120
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2024.109006

Mortality burden attributed to anthropogenic warming during Europe’s 2022 record-breaking summer

Author(s): Thessa M. Beck, Dominik L. Schumacher, Hicham Achebak, Ana M. Vicedo–Cabrera, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Joan Ballester
Published in: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 245, ISSN 2397-3722
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41612-024-00783-2

Heat Exposure and Cause-Specific Hospital Admissions in Spain: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study

Author(s): Hicham Achebak, Grégoire Rey, Zhao-yue Chen, Simon J. Lloyd, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Raúl Fernando Méndez-Turrubiates, Joan Ballester
Published in: Environmental Health Perspectives, Issue 132, 2024, Page(s) 057009-1 to 057009-11, ISSN 0091-6765
Publisher: US Department of Health and Human Services
DOI: 10.1289/ehp13254

Geographic sources of ozone air pollution and mortality burden in Europe

Author(s): Hicham Achebak, Roger Garatachea, María Teresa Pay, Oriol Jorba, Marc Guevara, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Joan Ballester
Published in: Nature Medicine, Issue 30, 2024, Page(s) 1732-1738, ISSN 1078-8956
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-02976-x

Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022

Author(s): Joan Ballester, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Raúl Fernando Méndez Turrubiates, Ferran Pegenaute, François R. Herrmann, Jean Marie Robine, Xavier Basagaña, Cathryn Tonne, Josep M. Antó, Hicham Achebak
Published in: Nature Medicine, Issue 29(7), 2023, Page(s) 1857–1866, ISSN 1078-8956
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-023-02419-z

Reversal of the seasonality of temperature-attributable mortality from respiratory diseases in Spain

Author(s): Hicham Achebak, Daniel Devolder, Vijendra Ingole, Joan Ballester
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, Page(s) 2457, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16273-x

Avoiding overestimates of climate risks from population ageing

Author(s): Simon J. Lloyd, Erich Striessnig, Raya Muttarak, Samir KC, Joan Ballester
Published in: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 88, ISSN 2397-3722
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41612-024-00641-1

National and transboundary contributions to surface ozone concentration across European countries

Author(s): Roger Garatachea, María Teresa Pay, Hicham Achebak, Oriol Jorba, Dene Bowdalo, Marc Guevara, Herve Petetin, Joan Ballester, Carlos Pérez García-Pando
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 5, 2024, Page(s) 588, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01716-w

Forecast skill assessment of an operational continental heat-cold-health forecasting system: New avenues for health early warning systems

Author(s): Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Desislava Petrova, Èrica Martínez-Solanas, François R. Herrmann, Xavier Rodó, Jean-Marie Robine, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Hicham Achebak, Joan Ballester
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado5286

Unbiased temperature-related mortality estimates using weekly and monthly health data: a new method for environmental epidemiology and climate impact studies

Author(s): Xavier Basagaña, Joan Ballester
Published in: The Lancet Planetary Health, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) e766-e777, ISSN 2542-5196
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(24)00212-2

Spatial Variability of Heat-Related Mortality in Barcelona from 1992–2015: A Case Crossover Study Design

Author(s): Vijendra Ingole, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Anna Deluca, Marcos Quijal, Carme Borrell, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Hicham Achebak, Dirk Lauwaet, Joan Gilabert, Peninah Murage, Shakoor Hajat, Xavier Basagaña, Joan Ballester
Published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Issue 17/7, 2020, Page(s) 2553, ISSN 1660-4601
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17072553

Climate Trends at a Hotspot of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Causes in Nicaragua, 1973–2014

Author(s): Zoe E. Petropoulos; Oriana Ramírez-Rubio; Madeleine K. Scammell; Rebecca L. Laws; Damaris López-Pilarte; Juan José Amador; Joan Ballester; Cristina O'Callaghan-Gordo; Daniel R. Brooks
Published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Issue 18(10), 2021, Page(s) 5418, ISSN 1660-4601
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18105418

Short-term effect of temperature on cause-specific, sex-specific, and age-specific ambulance dispatches in Czechia: a nationwide time-series analysis

Author(s): Tomáš Janoš, Joan Ballester, Raúl F Méndez-Turrubiates, Pavel Čupr, Hicham Achebak
Published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, Issue 54, 2025, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 0300-5771
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyaf051

Evolution of temperature-attributable mortality trends looking at social inequalities: An observational case study of urban maladaptation to cold and heat

Author(s): Marta Ellena, Joan Ballester, Giuseppe Costa, Hicham Achebak
Published in: Environmental Research, Issue 214, 2024, Page(s) 114082, ISSN 0013-9351
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114082

Ambient temperature and seasonal variation in inpatient mortality from respiratory diseases: a retrospective observational study

Author(s): Hicham Achebak, Judith Garcia-Aymerich, Grégoire Rey, Zhaoyue Chen, Raúl Fernando Méndez-Turrubiates, Joan Ballester
Published in: The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Issue 35, 2023, Page(s) 100757, ISSN 2666-7762
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100757

Daylight saving time affects European mortality patterns

Author(s): Laurent Lévy, Jean-Marie Robine, Grégoire Rey, Raúl Fernando Méndez Turrubiates, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Hicham Achebak, Joan Ballester, Xavier Rodó, François R. Herrmann
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, 2022, Page(s) 6906, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34704-9

Author(s): Elisa Gallo, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Raúl Fernando Méndez Turrubiates, Cathryn Tonne, Xavier Basagaña, Hicham Achebak, Joan Ballester
Published in: Nature Medicine, Issue 30, 2024, Page(s) 3101-3105, ISSN 1078-8956
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03186-1

Cooling cities through urban green infrastructure: a health impact assessment of European cities

Author(s): Iungman, Tamara; Cirach, Marta; Marando, Federica; Pereira Barboza, Evelise; Khomenko, Sasha; Masselot, Pierre; Quijal-Zamorano, Marcos; Mueller, Natalie; Gasparrini, Antonio; Urquiza, José; Heris, Mehdi; Thondoo, Meelan; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark
Published in: The Lancet, Issue 401(10376), 2023, Page(s) 577-589, ISSN 0140-6736
Publisher: The Lancet Publishing Group
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8318901

Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature in Pune city, India: A time series analysis from 2004 to 2012

Author(s): Vijendra Ingole, Scott C. Sheridan, Sanjay Juvekar, Hicham Achebak, Paula Moraga
Published in: Environmental Research, Issue Volume 204(Part C), 2022, Page(s) 112304, ISSN 0013-9351
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112304

Spatial Bayesian distributed lag non-linear models (SB-DLNM) for small-area exposure-lag-response epidemiological modelling

Author(s): Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Miguel A Martinez-Beneito, Joan Ballester, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo
Published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, Issue 53, 2024, ISSN 1464-3685
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae061

Estimation of pan-European, daily total, fine-mode and coarse-mode Aerosol Optical Depth at 0.1° resolution to facilitate air quality assessments

Author(s): Zhao-Yue Chen, Raúl Fernando Méndez Turrubiates, Hervé Petetin, Aleksander Lacima, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Joan Ballester
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 918, 2024, Page(s) 170593, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170593

The effect of temporal data aggregation to assess the impact of changing temperatures in Europe: an epidemiological modelling study

Author(s): Joan Ballester, Kim Robin van Daalen, Zhao-Yue Chen, Hicham Achebak, Josep M. Antó, Xavier Basagaña, Jean-Marie Robine, François R. Herrmann, Cathryn Tonne, Jan C. Semenza, Rachel Lowe
Published in: The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Issue 36, 2023, Page(s) 100779, ISSN 2666-7762
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100779

Ambient heat exposure and COPD hospitalisations in England: A nationwide case-crossover study during 2007-2018

Author(s): Garyfallos Konstantinoudis; Cosetta Minelli; Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera; Joan Ballester; Antonio Gasparrini; Marta Blangiardo
Published in: Thorax, Issue 77, 2022, Page(s) 1098–1104, ISSN 1468-3296
Publisher: BMJ
DOI: 10.1101/2021.10.19.21265213

Assessing heat exposure to extreme temperatures in urban areas using the Local Climate Zone classification

Author(s): Joan Gilabert, Anna Deluca, Dirk Lauwaet, Joan Ballester, Jordi Corbera, and Maria Carmen Llasat
Published in: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Issue 21(1), 2021, Page(s) 375–391, ISSN 1561-8633
Publisher: Copemicus Gesellschaften
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-2020-240

The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change : towards a climate resilient future

Author(s): Kim R van Daalen; Marina Romanello; Joacim Rocklöv; Jan C Semenza; Cathryn Tonne; Anil Markandya; Niheer Dasandi; Slava Jankin; Hicham Achebak; Joan Ballester; Hannah Bechara; Max W Callaghan; Jonathan Chambers; Shouro Dasgupta; Paul Drummond; Zia Farooq; Olga Gasparyan; Nube Gonzalez-Reviriego; Ian Hamilton; Risto Hänninen; Aleksandra Kazmierczak; Vladimir Kendrovski; Harry Kennard; Gregor Kies
Published in: The Lancet Public Health, Issue 7(11), 2022, Page(s) e942-e965, ISSN 2468-2667
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(22)00197-9

Does surrounding greenness moderate the relationship between apparent temperature and physical activity? Findings from the PHENOTYPE project

Author(s): Janice Y. Ho; Wilma L. Zijlema; Margarita Triguero-Mas; David Donaire-Gonzalez; Antònia Valentín; Joan Ballester; Emily Ying Yang Chan; William B. Goggins; Phoenix K. H. Mo; Hanneke Kruize; Magdalena van den Berg; Regina Gražuleviciene; Christopher Gidlow; Michael Jerrett; Edmund Seto; Jose Barrera-Gómez; Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Published in: Environmental Research, Issue 197, 2021, Page(s) 110992, ISSN 1096-0953
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.110992

The differential effect of ambient temperature on age-specific and sex-specific mortality in the 300 largest cities of Russia, 2000–19: a first national time-series study

Author(s): Sergey Timonin, Natalia Shartova, Bo Wen, Yao Wu, Evgeny Andreev, Yuming Guo, Joan Ballester
Published in: The Lancet Planetary Health, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) e410-e420, ISSN 2542-5196
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(25)00084-1

On the interpretation of the atmospheric mechanism transporting the environmental trigger of Kawasaki Disease

Author(s): Joan Ballester, Sílvia Borràs, Roger Curcoll, Albert Navarro-Gallinad, Sofya Pozdniakova, Lidia Cañas, Jane C. Burns, Xavier Rodó
Published in: PLoS ONE, Issue 14(12), 2019, Page(s) e0226402, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226402

Drivers of the time-varying heat-cold-mortality association in Spain: A longitudinal observational study

Author(s): Hicham Achebak; Grégoire Rey; Simon J Lloyd; Marcos Quijal-Zamorano; Raúl Fernando Méndez-Turrubiates; Joan Ballester
Published in: Environment International, Issue 182, 2023, Page(s) 108284, ISSN 0160-4120
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108284

Regional changes in temperature-related mortality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a continental modelling analysis in 805 European regions

Author(s): Blanca Paniello-Castillo, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Elisa Gallo, Xavier Basagaña, Joan Ballester
Published in: Environmental Research, Issue 278, 2025, Page(s) 121697, ISSN 0013-9351
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2025.121697

Long-term evaluation of surface air pollution in CAMSRA and MERRA-2 global reanalyses over Europe (2003–2020)

Author(s): Aleksander Lacima; Hervé Petetin; Albert Soret; Dene Bowdalo; Oriol Jorba; Zhaoyue Chen; Raúl F. Méndez Turrubiates; Hicham Achebak; Joan Ballester; Carlos Pérez García-Pando
Published in: Geoscientific Model Development, Issue 16(9), 2023, Page(s) 2689–2718, ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-16-2689-2023

Seasonality reversal of temperature attributable mortality projections due to present-day unobserved extreme heat in Europe.

Author(s): Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, ÈricaMartínez-Solanas, Hicham Achebak, Desislava Petrova, Jean-Marie Robine, François R Herrmann, Xavier Rodó, Joan Ballester
Published in: The Lancet Planetary Health, Issue 5(9), 2021, Page(s) e573-e575, ISSN 2542-5196
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(21)00211-4

Countrywide analysis of heat- and cold-related mortality trends in the Czech Republic: growing inequalities under recent climate warming

Author(s): Tomáš Janoš, Joan Ballester, Pavel Čupr, Hicham Achebak
Published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, Issue 53(1), 2024, ISSN 1464-3685
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyad141

Trends in population exposure to compound extreme-risk temperature and air pollution across 35 European countries: a modelling study

Author(s): Zhao-Yue Chen, Hicham Achebak, Hervé Petetin, Raúl Fernando Méndez Turrubiates, Yuming Guo, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Joan Ballester
Published in: The Lancet Planetary Health, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) e384-e396, ISSN 2542-5196
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(25)00048-8

Projections of temperature-attributable mortality in Europe: a time series analysis of 147 contiguous regions in 16 countries

Author(s): Èrica Martínez-Solanas, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Hicham Achebak, Desislava Petrova, Jean-Marie Robine, François R Herrmann, Xavier Rodó, Joan Ballester
Published in: The Lancet Planetary Health, Issue 5/7, 2021, Page(s) e446-e454, ISSN 2542-5196
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(21)00150-9

Trade-offs between short-term mortality attributable to NO2 and O3 changes during the COVID-19 lockdown across major Spanish cities

Author(s): Hicham Achebak, Hervé Petetin, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Dene Bowdalo, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Joan Ballester
Published in: Environmental Pollution, Issue 286, 2021, Page(s) 117220, ISSN 0269-7491
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117220

Population exposure to multiple air pollutants and its compound episodes in Europe

Author(s): Zhao-Yue Chen, Hervé Petetin, Raúl Fernando Méndez Turrubiates, Hicham Achebak, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Joan Ballester
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, Page(s) 2094, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46103-3

Thinking Health-related Behaviors in a Climate Change Context: A Narrative Review

Author(s): Guillaume Chevance, Ujué Fresán, Eric Hekler, Donald Edmondson, Simon J Lloyd, Joan Ballester, Jill Litt, Ivana Cvijanovic, Vera Araújo-Soares, Paquito Bernard
Published in: Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Issue 57(3), 2023, Page(s) 193–204, ISSN 1532-4796
Publisher: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Behavioral Medicine
DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaac039

Influences of area-level sociodemographic factors on heat-related mortality in Europe: insights to guide adaptation strategies

Author(s): Lloyd, SJ; Quijal-Zamorano, M; Achebak, H; Hajat, S; Muttarak, R; Striessnig, E; Ballester, J
Published in: The Lancet Planetary Health, Issue 6(1), 2022, Page(s) 12, ISSN 2542-5196
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00274-1

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